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July 2018 Rachel K. DiLima, Department of Psychology, Shepherd University The current study aims to better understand the roles of depressive symptoms, the Big Five personality trait of openness to experience, sensation seeking, and...

June 2018 Alexandra McCarron, Department of English and Modern Languages, Shepherd University The Biblical Book of Job, an examination of human suffering that is cosmic in scope, has attracted a significant amount of critical...

June 2018 Melany Alomia, Department of Contemporary Art and Theater, Shepherd University My work is a reflection of myself; physically and mentally it depicts who I am as an individual. In this series, Torment...

June 2018 Lilli Sutton, Department of English and Modern Languages, Shepherd University In this paper, I analyze the book of Ecclesiastes, especially its messages on the futility of life and death. Ecclesiastes is one...

March 2018 Claudia McCarron, Department of English and Modern Languages, Shepherd University In contemporary composition studies, researchers are beginning to place emphasis on the effects workspaces have on writing processes. Their studies indicate that...

May 2017 Jenna Sterner, Department of Contemporary Art and Theater, Shepherd University A work-in-progress for several months now, Ameliorate is the ongoing photographic narrative of the reconstruction of historic Ellicott City, Maryland, after the...

May 2017 Jillian MacMaster Department of Contemporary Art and Theater, Shepherd University Majesty is a photographic examination of types of women who are unconventional in appearance or who have characteristics that are underrepresented in...

May 2017 Andrea Siles Loayza, Department of Contemporary Art and Theater, Shepherd University This series of large-scale paintings features endangered shark species and create an environment that provokes a sense of power and helplessness....

May 2017 Claudia McCarron, Department of English and Modern Languages, Shepherd University In this paper, I examine the power and reach of the American jeremiad as a tool for social reform by tracing its...

May 2017 Caroline Wines, Department of Mass Communication, Shepherd University This study examines male and female perceptions regarding various areas of sexual consent to understand if there is a difference between the two genders....

May 2017 Acadia Kandora, Department of Contemporary Art and Theater, Shepherd University Constructing Nature is an abstracted woodblock series about the balance between the natural and constructed worlds. The work utilizes the idea of...

January 2017 Rebecca Barb, Department of English and Modern Languages, Shepherd University The purpose of this paper is to explore the rising theory of ecocriticism and its role in literature, specifically Kamala Markandaya’s Nectar in a...